Articles - The week that...

August 24, A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The eruption, which came without warning, lasted more than a week, sending columns of ash and gas into the stratosphere.
August 24, 1932: American aviatrix Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States, travelling from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in just over 19 hours.
August 24, 1968: France detonates a Hydrogen bomb over Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific ocean and becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power. The resulting contamination kept the atoll off limits to humans for six years.
August 25, 1991: 21-year-old Finnish university student, Linus Torvalds reveals a new operating system which later becomes known as Linux. It is released in 1994 and distributed over the internet for free.
August 28, 1837: Pharmacists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins of Worcester, England, begin manufacturing Worcester Sauce.